Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moratorium is agreed to early in SALT, many experts believe, the chance of real progress toward arms limitation is small. If both the U.S. and the Soviet Union proceed to MIRV deployment, the ensuing uncertainty would make a freeze on nuclear weaponry almost impossible to achieve. Policing an agreement to regulate the number of warheads installed in missiles would not be feasible. Spy satellites can count launch vehicles, but not their contents. Even an inspector on the ground would have to take a missile nose cone apart and physically count the number of warheads inside. Neither side will readily agree...
After an hour of detailed discussion, Nixon was satisfied that Thieu was in genuine agreement. He brought out the U.S. draft statement and asked: "Is it agreeable then that when we go out for pictures I read this statement?" A Thieu aide, Nguyen Phu Due, wrote a companion statement for Thieu. There was more discussion and some minor changes in each draft...
...TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter filed on the eve of the conference: "The issue is no longer unity. It is finding the lowest common denominator on which there can be limited agreement in the world Communist movement. Observers in Moscow believe that the meeting, and how it is carried off, holds the key to the success or failure of the current Kremlin leadership. Faced with a border war with China, the Soviet Union today must defend its national interests at the same time that it tries to justify them under the banner of 'proletarian internationalism.' In Eastern Europe, the invasion...
Because of the uproar, the conference, originally set for November 1968, had to be rescheduled for May 1969; it was then postponed again to last week. One indication of the magnitude of the dis agreement was the formulation of the working document for the conference...
...find in my paintings are characteristic of the mire men and animals find themselves in." She quotes Flannery O'Connor to the effect that "what people consider grotesque is really reality, and what they think is reality is grotesque." Adds Mrs. Beerman: "I'm in full agreement. I really feel that I'm depicting reality. People ask me if I have bad dreams. No. These paintings that I do are my bad dreams...